About Saundra

I came to this work the way many therapists do — through my own experience of it.

I know what it is to feel stuck inside a body that doesn't feel safe. To understand, intellectually, what's happening and still not be able to change it. To search for something in the healing process that talk therapy alone couldn't quite reach.

That searching led me toward the body. Toward yoga, somatic work, breath, presence. Toward the quiet places where something begins to shift ~ not because you've finally understood it, but because something in you has been allowed to move.

It also led me toward the spiritual ~ toward the recognition that healing, at its deepest level, is not just psychological. It is a return. To wholeness. To the self that was always there beneath the survival strategies, the adaptations, the ways we learned to manage what was too much.

What I believe

I believe we are innately whole. Not broken and in need of fixing, but whole ~ and sometimes carrying things that have obscured that wholeness. Trauma. An eating disorder. Addiction. Loss. The accumulated weight of living in a world that moves too fast and asks us to disconnect from ourselves to keep up.

My work is not about managing symptoms, though relief often comes. It is about reaching the places where the wound actually lives ~ in the nervous system, in the body, in the patterns we formed before we had words for them ~ and creating the conditions for something genuinely new to become possible.

I work slowly. Carefully. With deep respect for the intelligence of the body and the pace at which real healing happens.

Who I work with

I work with adults navigating trauma and complex PTSD, eating disorders and disordered eating, addiction and recovery, anxiety, depression, and burnout, and the deeper questions of meaning and spirit.

Many of the people I work with have already been in therapy. They are self-aware, deeply committed to their healing, and ready for something that goes further.

I work via telehealth with a small, carefully selected caseload of private pay clients across California, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina.

A little more about me

Outside of my practice, I live slowly and intentionally ~ by the water when I can, on trails when I can't. I practice yoga. I walk. I sit quietly with the things that matter.

I believe deeply in the healing power of nature, of simplicity, of presence. These are not just things I recommend to clients ~ they are how I live.

When you're ready, I'm here.